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Faster (the movie)

November 25, 2010

I know what you’re wondering, and no, Faster is not based on my book, and I was not consulted. This should have been a dead giveaway:

My lucky day

November 19, 2010

I am in Dear Book Lover. (The question, not the answer.)

Chaos

March 20, 2001

Chaos: Making a New Science (Viking 1987) “An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch.” —Douglas Adams “This is a stunning work, a deeply exciting subject in the hands of a first-rate science writer. The implications of the research James Gleick sets forth are breathtaking.” —Barry Lopez […]

The Information

March 19, 2001

“So ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it. Don’t make the mistake of reading it quickly. Imagine luxuriating on a Wi-Fi-equipped desert island with Mr. Gleick’s book, a search engine and no distractions. The Information is to the nature, history […]

Patently Absurd (2000)

March 20, 2000

W hen 21st-century historians look back at the breakdown of the United States patent system, they will see a turning point in the case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com and their special invention: “The patented One Click® feature,” Bezos calls it. Not everyone who knows Bezos as the newly minted billionaire founder of the world’s […]

Watch This Space (1995)

July 09, 1995

WHERE HUMAN ANATOMY meets data processing, there are just two important devices: the brain and the wristwatch. The brain is nice, but it doesn’t tell time very well. So, creatures of habit that we are, we strap on that extra thing—a machine worn every day by most adults in the industrialized world to display a […]

The Doctor’s Plot

May 11, 1994

In the world of unidentified flying objects, John E. Mack (or, as his book jacket labels him, “John E. Mack, M.D., the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist”) is a Mark masquerading as a Smart. Mack believes that little gray aliens have been abducting Americans in large numbers and subjecting them to various forms of unwilling sex. […]

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